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Paul Smyth and Bettina Cass (eds), Contesting the Australian Way: States, Markets and Civil Society, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp 288, pb, $34.95. George Seddon, Landprints, Reflections on Place and Landscape, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp 254, hb, $39.95. Anne Maxwell, Colonial Photography and Exhibitions. Representations of the ‘Native’ People and the Making of European Identities, London, Leicester University Press, Cassell Imprint, 1999, pp 243, hb, $45.00. Jim Hewitson, Far Off in Sunlit Places: Stories of the Scots in Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1998, pp 308, pb, $29.95. Trevor McCIaughlin (ed.), Irish Women in Colonial Australia, St Leonard's, Allen & Unwin, 1998, pp 181, pb, $24.95. Tim Bowden, Antarctic Eyewitness: Charles F Laseron's South with Mawson and Frank Hurley's Shackleton's Argonauts, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1999, pp 292, pb, $29.95. Gina Lennox, In Search of Heroes: Stories of Seven Remarkable Men, St Leonard's, Allen and Unwin, 1998, pp 303 + xvi, pb, $19.95. Davis McCaughey, Tradition and Dissent, Melbourne, Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1997, pp 272, pb, $24.95. Mudrooroo, Milli Milli Wangka; The Indigenous Literature of Australia, Melbourne, Hyland House, 1997, pp 233, pb. David Shearman and Gary Sauer‐Thompson, Green or Gone: Health, Ecology, Plagues, Greed and Our Future, Kent Town, SA, Wakefield Press, 1997, pp 280 pages, pb, $24.95. Angela Taylor, A Forester's Log: The Story of John La Gerche and the Ballarat‐Creswick State Forest 1882‐1897, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1998, pp 224, hb, $29.95. Dierdre Coleman (ed.), Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s, London and New York, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp 247, pb and hb, no rrp. E Osborne, Torres Strait Islander Women and the Pacific War, Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997, pp xv+271, pb, $29.95.